Mental Power: Transforming Stroke Recovery Through Visualization

David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. – I deliver a lot of talks on the mind-body connection. During these, I often share research on the use of visualization to speed up recovery from a stroke.

I first became acutely interested in the whole subject while I worked in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry. I worked in the fields of cardiovascular medicine and cancer, but I had a personal interest in the placebo effect.

When I was a child, my mum had suffered from post-natal (partum) depression after my youngest sister was born and mental practice tools helped her a lot. She and I often discussed the ‘power of the mind’. Continue reading →